Friday, December 16, 2005

Typepad down: Menu for Hope campaign pages gone!

Those of you on Typepad would have known this already, Typepad went down last night. When they came back up they used a backup copy from a few days ago, and lost all the posts from the last few days!

The problem is all the Menu for Hope pages are GONE! They might come back, I'm sure folks at Typepad are working on it, but I don't want to lose momentum on this. We've been doing so well and go up by over a thousand every day! The last I checked we were at $6,473.00 and unfortunately there had not been any donation since Typepad went down. People must be wondering what is going on when they come to Chez Pim and couldn't find any of the post on Menu for Hope.

Would those of you NOT on Typepad put a post up about this? Please inform your readers that the fundraising page is temporarily down, and we are working to get it up as soon as possible. In the meantime, the donation page at FirstGiving is still up.

Is there anyone who has a copy of the entire menu? If you do you might want to speak up so the rest of us can point to your copy while Typepad works on the problem. Thanks so much.

The Google cache might have contain some useful information. I foundthis by googling for [dining for hope chez pim] (without the braces), and clicking the "Cached" link. However, I don't know how stable the cache is.

Isn't there something called the "wayback machine" that archives the web? I usually see it in political contexts, e.g., to find what the White House removes.

Oh no! There were a bunch of us with late entry prizes in the comments! I don't know if any of that ended up in other people's archived lists since it hadn't been posted on the menu updates yet. I remember seeing (aside from my own entry) at least four or so other entries not listed anywhere but the post comments. I wish I could remember who they're from.

Jen, that's what Typepad tells everyone. So I am waiting to see when Chez Pim would get the lost posts back too.

Thanks for all the links to the menu as well. I also found (thanks to Jen) that Rojo cached everything. So I have copies of everything and could restore the posts if we have to.

The only thing I'm worried about now is the momentum. We've been raising more money every day, and got to almost $6,500 when Typepad went down. Hopefully we would be able to gain that momentum back when Typepad is good again. Do we dare hope that we would make the $10,000 mark before the end of the campaign??

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